Jean Dubuffet Quotes
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.
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I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
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People expect me to be funnier.
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If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
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Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.
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Man Writes on Sand.
